name was ms. dina fisher. she lost her 17-month battle with cancer and was a crusader for public education and banned to the in 2005 to save daniel webster elementary school when it was proposed for closure. she and several other parents stepped in and created the potrero residents education fund which is a 501c 3 non-proport supporting education and operates bilingual on two sites serving over 100 students 20 percent of which receive tuition assistance. dina was responsible for finding critical initial and follow-up on funding for two programs. play works and edge wood social services that provided portions of the most basic infrastructure needed to turn

daniel webster around. today daniel webster has a waiting list of students seeking to attend and has a rising test score index. a huge change from prior years when it was ranked last in the san francisco unified school district. her efforts have helped reinvigorates the school in this neighborhood. dina was just 48 years years young behind and leaves two young boys and her husband. i had the pleasure of working with dina and been in office and can a test to her wavering commitment to portrero hill and district 10. her spirit of fight will truly be missed but most certainly be lived on. city clerk: thank you

supervisor cohn. supervisor tang? >>supervisor katy tang: our sidewalk sales in all of our districts to take place saturday march 10th, march 17th, and to support the castro merchants on sidewalk renovations on june 13th. we want to encourage those to shop year-round. with that i submit. city clerk: thank you, surprise tang. supervisor wiener? thank you. supervisor yee. >> submit. >> supervisor avalos? >>supervisor john avalos: i have one item of introduction. it relates to today's hearing. colleagues if we seriously want to address the transit industry we need more than a pilot program. the tech industry is not merely a

cottage industry. it is our express lane to the future and we must usher in forward with great transit investments. today i'm introducing and ordinance for tez. for the transit program is google rapid transit. the ordinance calls for the mta to identify at least 10 major thorough fares where google painted red stripes for google buses. by designating the tech zones to ensure fast transit but also public safety for the little guys. we don't want our small high bribdz carrying little children and working class folks to we've around google buses. it will ensure safety for our maet community. my

google lanes ordinance does not cost more but will ensure great more investment to subsidize more needs. and the disruption of old mom and pop shops. they have much needed overpriced housing which has given our city a much needed face lift. google colors will show pride for google and other transplants. april fools. thank you. >> thank you. supervisor avalos. supervisor breed? breed bead -- >>supervisor london breed: we have a lot of pranksters on this board. i have something that is not a laughing

matter. it's about affirmative action and the constitutional amendment 5 and asking the california assembly without delay to take out the passage of scea 5 introduced by hernandez over turn the ban on affirmative action on emissions and higher education imposed by proposition 209 in 1996. the value of diversity and higher education has been established by numerous studies and personal experience of students both minorities alike. for my own personal experience as someone who benefited from affirmative action right before proposition 209 was passed, i immediately saw the decline of minorities at uc davis and it

was really devastating on the campus. it changes the culture of the campus. their traditional cultural events began to not only decline in attendance, but they became, they soon rapidly disappeared including black family day was something that the uc davis campus was known for for many many years which attracted a number of fraternity and sorority organizations across the country. the passage of 209 led to a proportion at design through the uc system and after it's passage enrollment of latino and african americans students dropped 30 percent at ucla. in

2012 although 50 percent of california's graduates were under represented and 39 were eligible for the uc campuses only 31 percent were admitted to the freshman class which also made up less than 10 percent of the overall uc population. the greatest drop in racial diversity has been in the sciences. although california colleges and universities can give admission preferences based on military service, athletic ability. legacy, none of these criterias have led to more diversity except in the case of sport. the supreme court ruling has allowed the use of race and admission and asked to the quality of the educational experience for all students. i can tell you from personal experience that it does. proposition 209 went far

beyond the judicial requirements and ban the use of race and ethnicity altogether and public institutions. hernandez amendment would revisit the issue and make the state constitution consisting with the ruling of the u.s. supreme court. during sca 5 hearing, the amendment reached support from 28 organizations from medical associations, student unions and other educational organizations and in fact it passed in the senate overwhelmingly with a 27-9 vote in january. yet, since that time. sca 5 has been stalled in the assembly and a task force has been installed to investigate this issue. there have been studies done and it is clear that there is significant decline in our

state universities throughout the state of california and it's important that we look at rectifying the situation. it's time for the senate to vote which after complaints they decided to shelf the issue. it should be in the hands of the california voters to decide. and what this resolution is doing is it's urging the assembly to take action in order to allow the voters to make that decision. i think this is a really really important issue. it's an important issue because i was qualified. this doesn't mean that you are not qualified to attend these universities. i was qualified to go to uc davis. i had a lot of challenges coming from san francisco, from my community. i got a lot of support and got tutoring services and yet i continue to have a few

challenges, but i would not be here as a member of the board of supervisors if it wasn't for affirmative action opening the door to give me the opportunity to attend one of the top universities in our state. i only think it's fair that every individual who has the skills, who has the desire, who that is mind-set have that same opportunity. i think that we are better for it. we are better for diversity. we are better for tolerance, we are better for opening the doors to make sure that when you clearly look at the statistics of what we face as a state and you look at the application pool of where these folks are coming from, the minority application pool as it relates to african americans and latinos considerably small compared to other groups which makes it really challenging to be able to develop a true diverse

pool when making the selection. so, i want to thank supervisor campos for cosponsoring this with me. i know he truly cares about this issue. i also want to thank some of my repeat cosponsors supervisors cohn and scott wiener. i know this is only an urging resolution but i think it's important that this body take a real critical action and making sure that our state representative understand how important it is to us and that we are going to continue to be watching and be actively engaged in the fight to make sure that folks from our especially disadvantaged community, the ones that we talk about the most have a real shot at attended these universities. the rest i submit. >> thank you. supervisor

campos. >>supervisor david campos: thank you. i want to thank supervisor breed and her staff for the resolution that they have introduced on affirmative action in prop 209. i'm very proud to be a cosponsor. what i want to say is this, that i think that what's happening around this issue is very unfortunate. what we have seen is that some individuals have tried to use this issue as a way of dividing communities. those of us that have benefited from affirmative action and i would not be here were it not for affirmative action, this would allow people who would otherwise not get opportunities but who have qualifications to get a shot to be in the mix. i think that all of us have benefited from affirmative action and i think

it's unfortunate that a way of propose from this measure have talked about the issue of quotas. quite frankly it's really unfortunate that some of these folks including people who should know better are regurgitating the language and the rhetoric of the right wing which has always used quotas as an excuse to oppose affirmative action. i have why it to meet anyone whos for affirmative action and who supports quotas and the idea to use language to talking about this is quite disappointing and i think that we in san francisco and we in the state of california are better than that. we are not talking about quotas, we are simply talking about giving people in the african american community and latino community an equal chance to actually enroll in these educational

institutions. it's what we see throughout this country is not going to end unless people in every community have the opportunity to attend these institutions. that's why this resolution is so important and i'm proud to take a stand with supervisors breed on it. the last tim that i have is an item that is a long time coming and i want to begin by thanking hilary rowan in from my office who i believe is watching even as she's trying to put her little girl to sleep. as you know yesterday was the first open enrollment period for covered california which marked the end of the beginning of a historic transformation in our health care industry in this country. thanks for the affordable care act millions of americans will have health insurance, many for the first time in their lives. while i'm great ateful

for this positive change in our health care system coming from the federal level, i am equally grateful here in san francisco that tom am yann oh created the local law of health care city ordinance because in fact that many of the best aspects of the affordable care act are modeled after local law that created universal health coverage for our residents. san francisco has been paving the way for the rest of country. we are grateful because we have this in order and affordable care act has more chances to be more successful in san francisco than anywhere else in the country. that is despite the fact that we are living in one of the most expensive if not the most expensive city in the country. the legislation that

i'm introducing today and i want to thank supervisor avalos, supervisor mar and kim for their cosponsorship is legislation that is essentially at it's core maximizes the benefits of how the the affordable care act and housing security ordinance interact so we maximize the number of san franciscans that are actually insured. since the mayor release temperature final report from the universal health council that met over the course of 4 months from september to december of last year, we have been working with health care experts to figure out how do we live up to the objectives, the maybe objective outlined by the council to maximize people's access to health care and insurance. there are a number of people who have helped us in crafting this legislation and i want to

begin by thank aun lewis, koom ar work-cited san francisco council and jacobs from the labor center. ken, aun and paul have worked continue less hours to help us craft the amendments that we were introducing. i also want to thank the incredible work from sherrie, kaiser from the san francisco city attorneys office who has done an incredible job in drafting this legislation. and this team has put together a piece of legislation that truly tries to maximize access to health care for all of san franciscans. but we recognize that the affordable care act has gone a long way in making health insurance affordable for many people in this country. the federal subsidies that are a part of the aca

are the same for individuals whether they live in san francisco, one of the most expensive cities or whether they live somewhere else. the reality is that what a subsidy means in iowa is not the same of what it means here in san francisco. for example, someone purchasing insurance through an exchange in cincinnati ohio where the average rental rate is $593 gets the same exact amount of money as someone who has to live and work in san francisco where the average rent is more than $3,000. what that means in high cost living cities like san francisco, many san franciscans as much they want to buy health insurance will simply not be able to afford it. in fact, we have spoken with several covered

california enrollment counselors who have told us countless stories of people who have met with the counselors to try to buy insurance and once they find out the cost, they simply walk away without signing up for conversation because they simply cannot afford to buy it. in fact, there is a study and it's one of the most studies on the subject that projects that without access to the financial resources that are made available by our local law that in san francisco 40 percent or more of uninsured san franciscans who are eligible for subsidies under the affordable care act would not take it up by 2019. again, 40 percent of san franciscans who would be otherwise eligible to receive insurance under the affordable

care act would not sign up because of the issue of cost. my legislation is designed to make health insurance more affordable for san francisco workers and residents. there are three main components that i want to talk about. first that we must finally closes the loophole that has allowed a limit minority of san francisco business to use stand-alone housing reimbursement cost about the vast majority of spending bylaw. whenever the affordable care act outlaw hra's and a new mechanism called the accepted benefit hra that will allow these employers to continue clawing back the money in these worker accounts. arguably as this is what's prompting in many respect is to closing this loophole, the affected hra is

more harmful than a stand-alone hra because workers are prohibited from using this money in their accounts to pay their shares for premium and duct -- deductibles to pay for health care. they will not be able to use the money in these accounts to actually meet that mandate. that does not make sense. without access to these funds for the purposes. paying cost related to the purchases of subsidized coverage, many low in the matter of and middle in come san franciscans will not only go without san franciscans, but much of the cost will go to other cost systems and safety providers and san francisco taxpayers. as a result it is critical

now more than ever that we eliminate this perverse incentive for employers and businesses to use accepted benefit hra's in the hopes of e evading their spending obligations by requiring that only irrevocable expenditures count towards meeting san francisco employee health care requirement. the second aspect of this law is we must bolster this san francisco ordinance to get as many workers insured as possible. my legislation has introduced a new program called covered san francisco. when an employer chooses a city option to meet it's spending requirements under the law, the department of public health will enter the worker into one of three programs. for those eligible for insurance through covered

california they willen roll the worker in covered san francisco to allow a worker to purchase a more comprehensive plan. incidentally covered san francisco is not a new idea, the state of vermont and state of new york new york and massachusetts have created a local subsidy program to make insurance offered through the changed more affordable for their residents. for those workers who are in eligible for the benefits of the affordable care act and san francisco residents will enroll that worker in san francisco and finally the workers that do not fit in any of the two previously described categories including medi-cal workers and other means, the department of public health will establish a

health access account for the individual. the third piece of legislation includes the following which is that while the combination of federal subsidies under the aca and employee requirements under the housing security ordinance have the potential to making health insurance affordable to most san franciscans coverage will continue for a significant number of individuals beyond the group of undocumented illegal immigrants and those will not be able to afford insurance. therefore i'm introducing the department of public health to help san franciscans to any san francisco resident who is exempt due to economic

hardship or any san franciscans who does not have an affordable health care insurance. we need health and security ordinance 2.0. because we are operating under a completely new health care system. we need to adjust our law accordingly. after months of work i am confident that the legislation i'm introducing today sets up a framework that maximizes the best aspects of the health and security ordinance and affordable care act and i look forward to the legislative process while i will have the opportunity to explain this concept in more detail. i respectfully ask my colleagues to indulge me and ask for your support and once again i want to thank tom am yann oh for his vision. because of his vision we are in san francisco able to make sure that we continue to lead the way for

health coverage throughout the way. the rest i submit. >> thank you surprise campos. supervisor farrell. i'm glad you submitted the rest. mr. campos. 11:00 p.m.. colleagues, two quick items. i submitted our last request for the budget season and we'll start to have departmental hearings starting next week into next month and we look forward to working with all of you for the productive season. and i look forward to working with you and i want to thank supervisor campos for his lengthy introduction and for the topic of it and i like forward to working together and i know your staff spent an amount of time and hopefully

make it something that we can all support and do what's right by our employees in san francisco. the rest i submit too. >> thank you. supervisor farrell. mr. president, that concludes supervisor business. >> thank you. we hope to adjourn in memory of dina fisher. let's go to public comment. >> public comment is open now to the public. public comment is not allowed on items already discussed. peopling using translation will be given an extra amount of time. first speaker. >> hi, my name is merlin. i drive a taxi in san

francisco. i have been here for 7 years. i'm trying to bring remind you about the ride shares and you know, i don't know if you see it as a big deal or big issue, but a lot of people i work with and a lot of people around the city do. as a rookie driver, i feel it's unfair that a lot of the veterans have been waiting for medallion. but yet now people can come and download software and become driver's on the streets of san francisco. the people i work with have been waiting for 20 years to be able to own a car and be and go out and be a taxi and not have to pay a company, be their own boss. but these software companies, there is three big ones that create software where anybody can

become a driver and drive anywhere on the streets. i think it's unfair and maybe there can be some regulations or you could maybe ask sf mta to give some medallions away. they give us medallions that go out to a number of shifts. i don't know how long uber or lift drivers if they can drive more. i don't know. maybe you know. i don't think it's fair that people who have been donating their time to this city like years of their life to be a taxi driver still waiting to get medallions. as a rookie, i know 20 years from now in san francisco i hope that you would see that maybe it's time you can hook me up with a medallion. thanks for all your help. >> thank you, next speaker.

>> back again. cynthia with the league of pissed off voters. thank you for your time and energy this evening. it has been a long night. i heard a lot of really exciting debate tonight and what i think that what we are talking about now is a ballot measure for a tax on the tech commuter shuttles. not speaking about the hearing just happening, what i'm talking about is going forward. i see a real opportunity for the mta to change this program for the community to have input and for all of you to use your expertise in finding a solutions that works for all of san francisco. excuse me because i actually ran down the hall to get here. i'm still painting a little bit. i think this